00:00Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels say they've carried out their first military operation in the
00:05Iran war, firing a barrage of ballistic missiles targeting sensitive Israeli military sites early
00:11on Saturday. The group's spokesperson Yahya Saria said the Yemeni armed forces will continue to
00:17target Israel until it seizes all its aggression on Iran and the resistance axes in Lebanon,
00:23Iraq and Palestine. The escalation also calls into question whether the group would target
00:28shipping vessels in the Red Sea as it had during Israel's war on Gaza. The Houthis now enter the
00:35conflict as the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran and Tehran's retaliatory strikes across the region hit the one-month
00:41mark, with fighting showing no signs of slowing down. On Friday, Israel targeted several Iranian
00:48nuclear facilities, including a heavy water complex in the city of Iraq and a yellow cake production
00:54plant in Ardakan. Iran's foreign minister says the strikes contradict Trump's promise of no
00:59hostilities to allow for diplomacy and warned that Tehran will, quote, exact a heavy price.
01:06A double-tap attack on a Saudi military base on Friday damaged several planes and wounded at least
01:1210 U.S. troops, suggesting Iran maintains the capacity to fire missiles with accuracy.
01:20Qatar and Ukraine signed a defense agreement on Saturday during a visit by Ukrainian President
01:26Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Doha. A similar announcement was made earlier in the day on cooperation with the
01:33United Arab Emirates on defense. As the Ukrainian leader tours Gulf Arab states amid Iran's aerial campaign
01:41against its neighbors. Zelenskyy has this week visited Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar. Ukraine's
01:48president has repeatedly said that what Ukraine needs first and foremost is air defense from
01:54Russia's ballistic missiles, in exchange for sharing his expertise and experience in countering Iranian
02:00drones. Qatar, together with Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, Jordan and Kuwait, sent official
02:07requests regarding possible cooperation with Ukraine over its drone-countering expertise.
02:13Ukraine has sent over 200 drone-countering experts to the region, the president said.
02:21French police foiled a suspected bomb attack outside a U.S. bank in Paris early on Saturday
02:28morning when they arrested a man about to set off an improvised explosive device.
02:33The incident took place outside a Bank of America building in the capital's 8th district, a few
02:40streets away from the Champs-Elysées. Police arrested the man just after he placed a device made of
02:485 litres of liquid believed to be fuel and an ignition system. Interior Minister Laurent Nunez has said the
02:56investigation has been taken over by France's counter-terrorism prosecutor's office.
03:03Paris Judicial Police and France's Domestic Intelligence Service are also involved in the probe.
03:16G7 foreign ministers continue to resist U.S. President Donald Trump's call to send troops to
03:22protect passage through the Strait of Hormuz, fearing it could drag them into a dangerous war.
03:29The group of seven made it clear to the U.S. that their countries would only help secure the critical
03:34passage for energy exports once hostilities in Iran conclude.
03:39G7 foreign affairs minister Jérôme Jérôme Jérôme Jérôme Jérôme.
04:09Jean-Noël Barraud says G7 countries also condemn Iran's move to close the Strait, which is affecting
04:15countries that are not part of the conflict. That Trump has repeatedly lashed out at European
04:21and NATO countries for refusing to set up the mission along the waterway and suggests
04:27their participation is not conditioned by talks or a ceasefire.
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